Ancestor Gateway Forum - WARTIME MEMORIES (WW2) Share your memories of the War years. New Topic  |  Search Thread Topic: sweet rations Topic Originator: John Post Date June 11, 2005 @ 5:58 AM  sweet rations John June 11, 2005 @ 5:58 AM Reply  |  Email  |  Print  |  Top During the war sweets were on ration, we had to have our ration books and have the coupons clipped out of them when we bought a quarter of sweets.  Our standby when we ran out of coupons for the month was to buy a bag of 'broken biscuits'.  We always seemed to be hungry! Those boiled sweets seem to have had a serious effect on our teeth.  Chocolate wasn't so bad, we could buy a small bar for 3d (threpence as it was known). Editor's note:  Send your wartime memories to us and they can appear like this one.  Email address does not have to appear.